Improvement in fences



TImJ'mm Imm JUL 41871 Inventar.

WzZiz 655m .fttarfzeyn UNITED STATES TIMOTHY O. WOOD, OF AUGUSTA, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN FENCES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 116,657, dated July 4', 1871.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, TIMOTHY C. NVooD, of

'Augusta, in the county of Kalamazoo and State Fig. 2 is an end elevation ofthe same. Fig. 3 is,

a transverse section of one of the posts, and Fig. al is a face view oli' one oi' the plates used between the Vposts and rais.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents the cast-metal posts, which consist preterably of a broad plate, B, with a longitudinal rib, O, on each side, a circular hase, D, and a cap, E, at the top, the latter for supporting the lower rail I?. G represents laterally-projecting arms, one at each side, near the top, for the connection ot' the braces H, by which the top structure is confined to the metal posts. I replatter.

for 'lapping the edges and entering notches in the surface to keep them in place, and those applied to the upper rails will have holes for the braces to pass through. N represents the short wood posts, placed on the lower 4rails and suppprting the upper rails with. the said .metal plates between. The bracing and clamping-rods are detachably connected to the arms G, and passing through holes in the upper rails and the plates applied thereto to receive nuts O, which screw on them and clamp the whole structure firmly together.

This 'arran gement is such that the fence may be readily taken apart for the removal of any decayed or broken piece and putting in a new one; and it aii'ords a permanent structure which may be put up with but little labor.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The two posts, having arms G G and seat E on each, the post N and the rods H, combined, constructed, and arranged as described, "to support the panel in a vertical posit-ion.

2. The two iron posts, the two wooden posts, the top and bottom rails, the foin1 braces, and the wires, all combined, constructed, and arranged as described, to form an improved panel of fence.

TIMOTHY C. WOOD.

Witnesses:

A. M. NORTH, A. WEBsTER. 

